Morgan for his part does well playing a grieving father trying to track down the next set of victims across Europe.
The Postcard Killings is hardly a terrible movie and it does offer at least a couple okay twists, one quite effective, but sadly that came probably a little over the halfway point, the rest plays out like any cat-and-mouse thriller that honestly even the charismatic Jeffrey Dean Morgan, whose participation probably is the reason why I was interested, couldn’t help. Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Se7en, Zodiac, etc are some of my favorites and even in college read plenty of the Lucas Davenport novels by John Sandford, whose work is the same vein as James Patterson, for which The Postcard Killings is based on his novel, co-written (probably mostly written by to be honest) by Liza Marklund.
Review: Generally I find these sort of crime-dramas to be quite entertaining. As he learns of similar heinous murders happening across Europe – each preceded by a postcard sent to a local journalist – Jacob is in a race against time to stop the killings, with the help of reporter Dessie Lombard (CUSH JUMBO), to stop the killings and find justice for his daughter. Unable to sit idly by and do nothing, Jacob travels to London to get the answers he needs. Plot Synopsis: NY Detective Jacob Kanon’s (JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN) world is destroyed when his daughter and son-in-law are brutally murdered in London.
RLJ Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this Blog Post.
Writer(s): James Patterson & Liza Marklund (novel ‘The Postcard Killers’) Andrew Stern and Ellen Brown Furman (screenplay), Liza Marklund & Tove Alsterdal (from the screenplay)Ĭast: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Famke Janssen, Cush Jumbo, Joachim Król, Steven Mackintosh, Naomi Battrick, Ruairi O’Connor Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller, Drama, Crime The Postcard Killings is a movie that I would’ve lost any interest in if not for a respectable cast, led way by Jeffrey Dean Morgan and the film at least did have a couple twists, though the final act it does lose quite a bit of steam.